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A  B  B  L  E  E 


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Drama  for  Bogs 


I3ST  ONE  ACT. 


ID  API  HD  FROM  THE  FRENCH  BY  MRS.  J.  SAHLiEU 


NEW  YORK: 

P.  J.  KENEDY, 

PUBLISHER  TO  THE  HOLY  APOSTOLIC  SEE, 
EXCELSIOR  CATHOLIC  PUBLISHING  HOUSE, 
5  BARCLAY  STREET. 


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Dmanagti. 


Court  d’Hericourt. 

Mr.  Belmont. 

Augustus,  his  son. 

Laflamme,  an  invalid  soldier. 

Dubois,  the  Count’s  valet.  ~~ 

The  Scene  is  laid  in  the  Count’s  do  use.— Tee  Stage  bsp  wines 
a  Pablo*. 


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A  DRAMA  IN  ONE  ACT 


Scene  I. 

Dubois,  alone.  Well !  truly  it  is  very  hard  to  serve  peo¬ 
ple  who  are  always  sick,  or  fancy  they  are.  The  least  noise 
disturbs  them,  and  one  don’t  know  what  to  do  to  please 
them.  Still,  I  don’t  think  I  have  any  reason  to  complain, 
for  the  Count  is  just  the  same  with  every  one,  even  his 
best  friends.  What  a  job  it  is  to  get  him  to  receive  them  ! 
I  know  well  enough  why  there  are  some  that  he  never  will 
see  at  all.  It’s  because  they  bother  his  brains  talking.  I 
would  tell  them  as  much  if  I  only  dared,  and  may-be  that 
would  cure  them.  But  who  knows  whether  they’d  take 
the  advice  in  good  part,  or  no.  Besides,  it’s  no  business 
of  mine. 

Seen©  XI. 

DUBOIS  —  MR.  BELMONT - AUGUSTUS. 

Mr.  Belmont.  Is  the  Count  to  be  seen  ? 

Dubois.  Sir,  if  you  will  be  kind  enough  to  wait  a  mo* 
meat,  I  will  see  whether  my  lord  can  receive  you  or  not. 

(5) 


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THE  BABBLER. 


Seen©  III. 

MR.  BELMONT - AUGUSTUS. 

Augustus.  I  see  it  is  no  easy  matter  to  get  speaking  to 
this  gentleman. 

Mr.  Belmont.  His  health  is  very  poor,  Augustus,  and 
it  must  fatigue  him  a  good  deal  to  receive  visitors.  Indeed, 
I  should  be  sorry  to  trouble  him  myself,  if  it  were  not  to 
serve  your  old  soldier.  As  for  you,  I  would  not  have 
brought  you  on  any  account,  only  you  promised  so  faith¬ 
fully  not  to  indulge  in  your  odious  habit  of  prating.  This 
habit  is  intolerable  in  a  child;  and  you  should  always 
bear  in  mind,  that  when  you  are  in  a  strange  house  you 
should  never  speak  unless  when  spoken  to.  In  this  case, 
moreover,  the  clatter  of  your  tongue  would  annoy  the 
Count,  perhaps  make  him  angry,  and  so  do  positive  injury 
to  your  old  man,  who  has  so  much  need  of  assistance. 

Augustus.  My  dear  papa,  even  if  I  hadn’t  promised, 
this  last  motive  would  be  sufficient  to  make  me  hold  my 
tongue.  But  don’t  you  think,  now,  that  it’s  very  hard  for 
children  to  be  kept  from  talking  ?  People  are  all  the  time 
telling  them,  “  Keep  silent,  keep  silent,”  just  as  if  it  were 
a  harm  to  open  one’s  mouth  away  from  home. 

Mr.  Belmont.  And  so  it  is,  very  often,  my  son,  a  harm 
to  speak  when  one  does  not  know  how  to  use  his  tongue 


THE  BABBLER. 


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Y  ou  know  what  the  Holy  Book  says  :  u  A  vise  man  will 
hold  his  peace  till  he  see  opportunity ;  but  a  babbler  and 
a  fool  will  regard  no  time.” 

Augustus.  Oh  !  all  that  does  very  well  in  books ;  but 
what  harm  would  it  do  one  man,  supposing  he  spoke  a 
little  more  than  another?  If  you’re  early  in  class,  and 
open  your  mouth  to  say  a  word,  bah  !  you’re  put  in  pen¬ 
ance.  “ But,  sir  —  ”“Ah!  you’re  answering,  are  you?  — 
dry  bread  and  no  walk  to-day.”  Masters  are  always  sure 
to  be  in  the  right,  no  matter  how  it  is.  That’s  the  way  I 
was  punished  in  the  wrong  the  other  day,  because - 

Mr.  Belmont.  Admirably  well !  is  this  the  way  you 
keep  your  promise  ? 

Augustus.  Why,  papa,  it  isn’t  any  matter,  surely,  so 
long  as  the  Count  is  not  here.  I  only  want  to  tell  you,  that 
as  soon  as  ever  I  leave  school  I’ll  talk  just  as  much  as  I 
please ;  because  then  I  shall  have  no  penance  to  catch. 

Mr.  Belmont.  Would  to  heaven,  my  son,  there  were  no 
worse  punishments  than  that !  But  unfortunately  there 
are,  and  I  wish  you  may  never  find  it  out  to  your  cost. — 
Hush  1  here  is  the  Count. 

Seen©  I'V". 

THE  SAME. — THE  count,  muffied  up  as  an  invalid. 

Count.  Excuse  me,  Mr.  Belmont,  if  I  have  kept  you 
waiting;  but  really  —  I  am  —  so  prostrated. 


THE  BABBLER. 


e 


Mr.  Bei  mont.  So  you  are  no  better  ¥ 

Count.  Ob,  no  I — a  hundred  times  worse. 

Mr.  Belmont.  You  are  not  able  to  ride  out,  hen,  I 
suppose  ? 

Count.  What  is  that  you  say  ?  I  rode  out  six  mcLtha 
ago. 

Mr.  Belmont.  Well  ? 

Count.  Well!  I  got  a  rneumatism  that  I  didn’t  get 
rid  of  the  whole  winter. 

Mr.  Belmont.  That  is  strange.  Now,  I  never  take 
cold ;  and  I  can  tell  you,  I  don’t  shut  myself  up. 

Count.  Oh  !  but  you  have  a  frame  of  iron. 

Mr.  Belmont.  Not  quite ;  not  quite.  I  had  an  excel¬ 
lent  constitution. 

Count.  Pray,  don’t  speak  so  loud. 

Mr.  Belmont.  Ah  !  I  beg  your  pardon  many  times. 

Count.  My  head  is  so  bad  ol  late. 

Mr.  Belmont.  I  thought  you  were  better. 

Count.  Oh,  no  !  on  the  contrary.  It  is  very  kind  of 
yoa,  indeed,  to  take  so  much  interest  in  my  health. 


TH ifi  BABBLER, 


d 

Mk  Belmont.  For  this  time,  my  visit  is  an  interested 
one,  1  came  to  ask  a  favor  of  you. 

Count.  Nothing  will  j.  lease  me  better. 

Mb.  Belmont.  It  is  in  behalf  of  an  old  soldier  belong¬ 
ing  to  my  brother’s  regiment.  He  has  brought  him  home, 
with  Ms  wife  and  four  children.  I  have  not  much  knowl¬ 
edge  of  Him  myself,  but  my  family  all  speak  well  of  him, 
and  he  was  very  much  attached  to  my  son  during  the  twc 
years  he  spent  at  his  uncle’s.  Indeed,  it  is  at  the  boy’s 
request  that  I  interest  myself  for  him. 

Count.  What  does  he  want,  if  he  is  living  with  your 
brother  ? 

Mb.  Belmont.  My  brother’s  means  will  not  permit  him 
to  do  as  much  for  the  veteran  as  he  would  wish  to  do. 
We  are  anxious  to  obtain  a  situation  for  him  as  door¬ 
keeper  in  some  public  institution.  That  would  enable 
him  to  bring  up  his  family  respectably,  as  they  really  come 
of  a  good  stock. 

Count.  I  will  find  a  place  for  him. 

Mr.  Belmont.  You  will  do  me  the  greatest  possible 
pleasure.  The  poor  man  is  covered  all  over  with  scars, 
yet  still  he  is  brisk  and  active,  and  well  able  to  discharge 
the  duties  of  such  an  office. 


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Count.  Very  good ;  you  will  give  me  a  memorial. 

Mr.  Belmont.  That  he  will  give  you  himself  I  must 
ask  your  permission  to  introduce  him. 

Count.  No,  I  will  not  see  him.  It  is  unnecessary. 

Mr.  Belmont.  Why  so  ? 

Count.  Because  he  will  only  torment  me. 

Mr.  Belmont.  I  promise  you  he  will  not. 

Count.  It  is  impossible  in  my  present  state.  Besides, 
if  I  do  his  business  —  that  is  all  he  wants. 

Mr.  Belmont.  You  are  quite  right ;  but  still  it  would 
give  him  so  much  pleasure  —  he  has  got  a  notion  that  no 
one  but  himself  can  explain  the  matter  properly. 

Count.  That  is  just  what  I  am  afraid  of.  The  memorial 
U  sufficient. 

Mr.  Belmont.  Pray,  do  not  refuse  me  this  favor ! 

Count.  Well  I  you  may  bring  him  some  day  soon. 

Mr.  Belmont.  He  is  here. 

Count.  Indeed,  you  are  very  pressing. 

Mr.  Belmont.  Just  see  him  for  a  few  moments,  and  than 
irou  ’ll  be  rid  of  him. 


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Count.  But  he  will  keep  coming  every  day. 

Mb.  Belmont.  I  give  you  my  word  he  will  not. 

Count.  If  he  once  begins  to  talk  of  his  affairs,  there 
will  be  no  end  to  it,  and  there  is  nothing  in  the  world  so 
tiresome. 

Mr.  Belmont.  Only  a  word  or  two  —  that’s  all. 

Count.  Well  I  be  it  so ;  —  but  remember  —  if  I  find  him 
the  least  thing  troublesome — I  will  have  nothing  to  do 
with  his  memorial. 

Mr.  Belmont.  I  agree  to  that. 

Count.  On  this  condition  you  may  have  him  come  in. 
I  shall  return  in  a  moment.  {He  goes  into  a  closet .) 


Scene  V  * 

MR.  BELMONT - AUGUSTUS. 

Augustus.  You  see  I  can  keep  my  word,  papa. 

Mr.  Belmont.  I  am  glad  to  see  it,  Augustus! — I  am 
always  pleased  to  see  you  try  to  correct  a  bad  habit. 

Augustus.  It  wasn’t  but  I  wanted  badly  to  speak.  In 

u-  Of  ILL  LIB. 


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hopes  of  deciding  the  Count,  I  had  a  great  mind  to  tell 
him  all  that  Laflamme  has  done  in  his  time  —  I  don’t  think 
that  would  have  been  any  harm. 

Mr.  Belmont.  Yes,  truly !  you  would  have  made  a  fina 
kettle  of  fish  of  it !  But  he  is  waiting  in  the  garden  to  be 
admitted — go  and  call  him,  instead  of  babbling. 

Augustus,  going  to  the  door .  Laflamme  1  Laflamme  I 


Been©  YI. 

ENTER  LAFLAMME. 

Laflamme.  Here  I  am !  here  I  am  ! — where’s  the  Count  f 

Mr.  Belmont.  He  is  coming  presently. 

Laflamme.  I  want  to  see  if  he  ’ll  know  me.  He  was 
only  a  little  fellow  when  I  saw  him  first,  and  a  stupid  look 
he  had  of  his  own. 

Mr.  Belmont.  Say  nothing  about  that. 

Laflamme.  As  you  will ;  I  have  plenty  of  other  things 
to  tell  him.  If  you  only  knew  how  proud  his  mother  was  1 

Mr.  Belmont.  Surely,  you  would  not  tell  him  that, 
would  you  ? 


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Laflamme.  If  you  don’t  think  well  of  it,  I  will  not 
Stay !  let  me  see  —  it  was  his  uncle — 

Si r.  Belmont.  But,  listen  to  me. 

Laflamme.  Of  course  I  will  —  that’s  only  fair  —  you  are 
taking  a  great  deal  of  trouble  on  my  account,  and  I’d  be  a 
mean,  scurvy  fellow  to  hold  my  tongue,  and  not  so  much  as 
thank  you  —  howsomever  — 

Mr.  Belmont.  Will  you  let  me  tell  you  the  sort  of  man 
with  whom  you  have  to  deal  ? 

Laflamme.  But,  sir,  I  have  the  honor  to  tell  you  that  I 
know  him  already  —  I  saw  him  a  child,  and  — 

Mr.  Belmont.  But  do  you  know  the  present  state  of 
his  health  ? 

Laflamme.  Can’t  say  I  do,  but  I  know  his  mother  was 
a  fine,  stout  woman. 

Mr.  Belmont.  Well !  he  has  the  poorest  health  that 
can  be. 

Laflamme.  Possible!  He  takes  after  his  father.  He 
was  only  a  shadow,  that  poor  man  !  I  remember  one  day 
— it  was  with  the  army — »no,  in  garrison — 

Mr.  Belmont.  Are  you  going  to  talk  so  to  the  Count  ? 

Laflamme.  No,  no,  no  I 


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Mr.  Belmont.  I  tell  you,  the  least  thing  in  the  world 
gi  ves  him  a  headache  ! 

Laflamme.  There  are  such  people,  I  have  heard  say. 

Mr.  Belmont.  And  he  cannot  bear  to  hear  any  one  talk. 

Laflamme.  Til  listen,  I’ll  listen  ! 

Mr.  Belmont.  You  will  give  him  your  memorial,  that 
ia  all. 

Laflamme.  I  won’t  speak  of  any  thing  else. 

Mr.  Belmont.  Not  even  of  that. 

Laflamme.  But  I  must  explain  it,  you  know. 

Mr.  Belmont.  I  have  told  him  all,  so  you  must  promise 
to  be  silent,  as  the  only  means  of  obtaining  what  you  want. 

Laflamme.  Well  and  good ! 

Mr.  Belmont.  The  Count  will  understand  you  in  half  a 
word. 

Laflamme.  Yes ;  but  still — 

Mr.  Belmont.  If  you  will  not  be  said  by  me,  I’ll  have 
nothing  at  all  to  do  with  you. 

Laflamme.  I  will  do  whatever  you  think  best. 


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Mr.  Belmont.  Here  he  comes — not  a  word,  now  l 
Laflamme.  Leave  that  to  me. 


Seen©  VII. 

ENTER  THE  COUNT. 

Mr.  Belmont.  My  lord,  this  is  the  worthy  veteran,  La¬ 
flamme,  of  whom  I  spoke  to  you  a  little  while  ago.  1 
have  the  honor  of  introducing  him  to  your  notice. 

Laflamme.  Yes,  my  lord,  I’m  the  man  that — 

Mr.  Belmont.  Silence,  I  tell  you  I 

Count.  Mr.  Belmont  has  told  me  all  about  your  busi 
ness ;  if  you  will  give  me  your  memorial,  I  will  send  it  to 
some  one  who  will  certainly  obtain  for  you  the  situation 
you  desire. 

Laflamme.  There  it  is,  my  lord. 

The  Count,  taking  the  memorial .  Very  good. 

Laflamme.  To  save  you  the  trouble  of  reading  it,  I  will 
just  tell  you  in  two  words  what’s  in  it,  if  you  ’ll  give  me 

leave. 


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Count.  I  know  all. 

Laflamme.  My  lord,  I’ll  be  done  in  one  moment.  1 
was  thirty  years  in  the  service ;  and  was  out  all  through 
the  wars  of  Italy.  Bless  me  !  didn’t  I  know  your  father 
at  the  siege  of  Mantua ! — he  was  nothing  more  than  myself 
at  that  time.  But  he  was  raised,  step  by  step,  you  see, 
and  I  was  overlooked.  See  what  it  is  to  have  interest — 

Mr.  Belmont.  No  more  of  that. 

Laflamme.  I  remember  we  tossed  him  in  a  blanket  once, 
and  I  held  a  comer.  Indeed,  it  was  I  that  was  sent  to 
fetch  it.  He  never  forgave  me  that.  He  had  his  shoulder 
broken  by  the  fall,  because  I  happened  to  let  my  comer  gc. 
I  didn’t  do  it  on  purpose,  you  know,  but  still — 

Mr.  Belmont.  Stop,  I  tell  you  ! 

Laflamme.  Yes,  I  know  I  was  in  the  wrong — there’s  no 
denying  that.  But  where  was  I  ? — oh !  at  the  siege  of 
Mantua — well !  I  was  wounded  in  this  hand  by  the  burst¬ 
ing  of  a  bombshell.  There’s  nothing  of  that  in  the  me¬ 
morial,  though.  Another  thing  that’s  of  greater  impor¬ 
tance,  I  did  put  in  it,  and  that  is,  that  I  married  the 
daughter  of  a  sergeant  who  was  killed  at  Millesimo  ;  I’m 
sorry  she  isn’t  here  now,  for  I  know  your  lordship  would 
be  well  pleased  to  see  her. 

Count.  Sir,  I  am  not  in  the  habit  of  seeing  any  one. 


THE  BABBLER. 


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Laflamme.  She  is  a  regular  soldier — my  woman  !  Her 
children  are  brought  up — but  I  must  tell  you  about  that ; 
it  won’t  keep  me  long. 

Count.  Sir,  I  have  no  time  to  hear  you,  and  I  must 
beg— 

Laflamme.  The  eldest,  who  is  five  years  old, — no,  six  ; 
yes,  I  was  right,  he’s  just  five, — can  go  through  his  exer¬ 
cise  already,  like  an  old  trooper.  If  you  only  saw  him, — 
he  is — 

Mr.  Belmont.  ’Sdeath,  man,  will  you  hold  your  tongue  ? 

Laflamme.  It  just  shows  that  a  military  education  goes 
beyond  all  others.  Now,  here’s  myself,  for  instance,  that 
slept  many  a  time  in  the  open  air,  when  I  was  a  boy  at 
home  in  my  father’s, — not  like  Turenne,  indeed,  on  a  gun, 
but  in  the  farm-yard,  on  a  bundle  of  straw  or  a  sack  ol 
oats ;  well  I  I  don’t  know  what  it  is  to  be  sick.  It’s  all 
custom,  you  see, — 

Count,  to  Mr,  Belmont,  Sir,  is  this  what  you  told  me  ? 

Laflamme.  No,  sir,  Mr.  Belmont  couldn’t  have  told 
you  that,  because  I  never  spoke  of  it  to  him.  He  doesn’t 
like  people  chatting. 

Mr.  Belmont.  Since  you  know  that — 


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Laflamme.  Oh  !  I  know  it  well  enough ;  but  its  only 
right  that  his  lordship  here  should  know  all  about  a  man 
for  whom  he  is  going  to  interest  himself ;  so  I  think  I’m 
doing  no  harm,  I  was  silent  once  when  I  ought  to  have 
spoken,  and  I  lost  a  cross  for  being  so  timid,  and  not  car¬ 
ing  to  boast  of  my  own  actions — a  cross,  too,  that  was 
well  deserved. 

Mr.  Belmont.  I  would  wager  a  trifle  that  it  was  rather 
for  talking  too  much,  [aside,]  as  you’re  doing  now. 

Laflamme.  As  for  memorials,  bah  !  nobody  reads  them ; 
and  if  any  one  is  good  enough  to  speak  for  a  man,  it’s  the 
least  he  may  know  what  he’s  got  to  say  for  him.  I  missed 
a  company  in  that  way ; — I  thought  all  was  going  on  well, 
so  I  waited  very  quietly — that  is,  I  went  every  day,  be¬ 
cause,  you  know,  one  must — 

Mr.  Belmont.  That’s  enough,  that’s  enough — 

Laflamme.  Every  one  in  the  offices  knows  that,  for,  you 
see,  I  had  a  bounty  of  a  good  hundred  crowns,  a  while 
after.  It  was  given  to  the  man  that  carried  a  magazine 
before  Tivola,  and  that  was  just  myself.  Well !  I  say 
nothing ;  but  if  I  hadn’t  spoken  out  then,  I  wouldn’t  have 
got  it :  that  is  why  I  have  the  honor  of  telling  you — 

Mr.  Belmont.  But  will  you  stop  your  clatter  ? 

Laflamme.  I’ll  only  say  one  word  more. 


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Count.  Sir,  I  am  not  at  all  well,  and — 

Laflamme.  I  know,  my  lord,  I  know  yon  hare  a  bad 
headache.  I  have  had  it  myself ;  it’s  a  terrible  thing  to 
have ;  but  there  is  a  sure  remedy  for  it,  which  I  tried  my¬ 
self,  after  a  contusion  that  I  got  at  the  siege  of  the  castle 
©f  Milan.  I  was  sitting,  as  it  might  be,  there — there  were 
swivel-guns  raking  us  at  a  prodigious  rate — 

Mr.  Belmont.  His  lordship  has  nothing  to  do  with  that. 

Laflamme.  Perhaps  my  lord  doesn’t  know  what  swivel- 
guns  are ; — I’m  just  going  to  tell  him — 

Count.  I’m  much  obliged  to  you,  but  my  head  grows 
worse  every  moment. 

Mr.  Belmont.  Let  us  go. 

Laflamme.  I’ll  come  back  to-morrow,  (going  presently,) 
just  for  a  moment,  till  I  have  the  honor  of  paying  my 
respects  to  the  Count — 

Count.  You  shall  not  find  me,  for  I  am  going — 

Laflamme.  Oh !  but  I’ll  follow  you  anywhere  at  all, 
and  I’ll  be  delighted  to  serve  you ;  because  the  way  it  ia 
with  me,  you  see,  you  have  only  to  say  the  word ;  I  go  and 
come,  just  as  if— 

Mr.  Belmont.  You  are  intolerable  1 


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THE  BABBLER. 


Count.  I  am  overpowered — I  can  bear  no  more. 

Laflamme.  If  my  lord  would  take  my  advice,  lie  would 
lie  down ;  there’s  nothing  like  the  bed  for  refreshing  one. 
And  then  we  could  all  keep  him  company,  and  chat  with 
him;  that  distracts  the  pain.  Every  time  I  was  under 
cure  of  my  wounds,  I  got  the  story-teller  of  our  regiment 
to  come  and  sit  with  me  when  I  couldn’t  sleep.  That’s  a 
capital  plan,  I  give  you  my  word,  because  when  one  is 
intent  on  one  thing,  they’re  apt  to  forget  the  other. 

Mr.  Belmont.  Will  you  have  done  ?  [The  Count  moves 
a  few  steps.] 

Laflamme.  The  Count  wants  something — I’ll  ring  the 
bell— 

Count.  Mr.  Belmont,  you  know  what  I  told  you ;  it  is 
all  settled.  [He  goes  out.] 

Laflamme.  My  lord,  I  ’ll  come  another  time  to  thank 
you. 


Been©  "VIII. 

THE  SAME,  EXCEPT  THE  COUNT. 

Laflamme.  Well !  didn’t  I  get  along  famously  f 
Mil  Belmont  You  succeeded  well. 


THE  BABBLER. 


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Laflamme.  Of  course  I  did ;  you  know  lie  told  you  it 
was  all  settled. 

Augustus.  Yes,  indeed,  so  well  settled  that  he  will  havt 
nothing  more  to  do  with  your  affairs. 

Laflamme.  How  is  that? — why  so?  —  what  have  I 
done  ? 

Augustus.  You  talked  incessantly,  after  all  your  prom¬ 
ises  to  papa,  and  in  spite  of  all  he  could  do  and  say  to 
stop  your  mouth. 

Laflamme.  Why,  I  could  hardly  get  speaking  a  word. 

Mr.  Belmont.  In  shoit,  he  found  you*,  an  insufferable 
man,  an  eternal  babbler,  a  most  troublesome  person,  just 
what  he  feared. 

Laflamme.  Well !  that’s  what  no  one  could  ever  say  to 
me ,  at  any  rate ;  for  in  the  army,  when  my  captain - 

Mr.  Belmont.  Let  me  finish  what  I  was  saying.  Count 
d’Hericourt  was  unwilling  to  see  you  for  this  very  reason ; 
1  thought  to  do  you  a  service  by  persuading  him  to  re¬ 
ceive  you,  and  he  consented  on  the  express  condition  that 
he  would  do  nothing  for  you  in  case  he  found  you  trouble¬ 
some. 

Laflamme.  Well  I  that’s  the  drollest  thing  I  ever  heard 

oL 


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THE  BABBLER. 


Mr.  Belmont.  So  it  was  that  he  reminded  me,  going 
out,  of  what  he  had  told  me,  and  said  the  affair  was  settled. 
You  see,  now,  what  you  have  done. 

Laflamme.  But  it  isn’t  my  fault.  If  you  had  told  me — 

Mr.  Belmont.  No,  I  see  you  cannot  hold  your  tongue. 
I  wish  you  good-day.  You  need  count  no  more  on  me, 
either.  Good-bye. 

Laflamme.  Much  disturbed.  Well  I  this  is  a  fine  job  of 
work  !  I  knew  nobody  in  Paris,  and  didn’t  suppose  that 
people  could  do  business  without  speaking  of  it.  These 
grand  people  don’t  seem  to  hear  you  unless  you  tell  them 
oyer  and  oyer  a  hundred  times.  My  wife  will  be  in  a  fine 
way  when  she  hears  all,  for  its  what  I  often  told  her — (A* 
goes  out  talking  to  himself.) 


Scene  IX* 

MR.  BELMONT — AUGUSTUS. 

Mr.  Belmont.  Well,  my  boy !  do  you  still  think  it  wrong 
to  accustom  children  not  to  speak  too  much  ? 

Augustus.  Oh,  papa !  I  see  you  are  right.  I  am  very 
»orry  for  what  has  happened  to  poor  Laflamme ;  but  I  know 


THE  BABBLER. 


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bucIi  a  lesson. 

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